The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. These data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States. [1]
There were twenty-two number-one albums in 2004, including two releases by the Mexican group Los Temerarios: Tributo al Amor and Veintisiete ; the latter album received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album. [2] However, the award went to Intimamente by Intocable, [3] which also peaked at number one on the chart in March. Mi Sangre , by Colombian performer Juanes, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album, [4] won three Latin Grammy Awards, [5] and also reached the top spot of this chart for five consecutive weeks from October 16 to November 13, 2004.
Singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís also peaked twice at the top of the chart with his greatest hits album La Historia Continúa... and his Latin Grammy Award nominated album Razón de Sobra . [6] Daddy Yankee, Jennifer Peña, Grupo Climax and Adán Sánchez peaked at number one for the first time in 2004. Luis Miguel's México En La Piel became his sixth number-one set on the chart and was also the winner of a Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album [7] and the Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album in 2005. [8]
Two albums by Marc Anthony reached the top spot of the chart: Amar Sin Mentiras and Valió La Pena . With these recordings, Marc Anthony won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album [9] and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album [10] for Amar Sin Mentiras. Valió La Pena was awarded with the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album [11] and also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Salsa/Merengue album. [12]
The Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for quality R&B songs. Awards in several categories are distributed annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."
Máximo Antonio del Rosario, commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Grammy Award nominee musician, best known for his role of bandleader of Merengue music act Los Hermanos Rosario. In 1990, he started his successful solo career receiving gold and platinum certifications.
Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres is the fifth studio album by Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel, released on November 6, 2007, by Machete Music. On November 13, 2008, the album received the Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album, and Lo Nuestro Award for Urban Album of the Year. Also, the album won Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album on 2009. To promote the album the artists embarked on the "Los Extraterrestres Tour".
Maná MTV Unplugged is a live album by Mexican rock band Maná. It was an accoustic set performed for MTV Unplugged in Miami on March 9, 1999, and released on CD and DVD on June 22, 1999. It includes exclusive re-make versions of the José Alfredo Jiménez song "Te Solte La Rienda", the Rubén Blades song "Desapariciones", and "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" by Juan Gabriel. As of 2000, it sold 2 millions of copies.
Con Mis Propias Manos is the title of a studio album released by Regional Mexican artist Lupillo Rivera. This album became his second number-one set on the Billboard Top Latin Albums. It garnered Rivera a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Banda Album at the 6th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
Para Siempre is the 79th studio album released by Mexican singer Vicente Fernández on September 18, 2007 by Sony BMG Norte. Written and produced by Joan Sebastian, and co-produced by Jesús Rincón, the album is a successful mariachi record. It has sold two million copies worldwide, and is one of the biggest-selling albums by Fernández. It spawned four singles: "Estos Celos", "La Derrota", "Un Millón de Primaveras" and the title track, the latter of which was used as the main theme to the Mexican telenovela Fuego En La Sangre, which brought the album wider exposure and helped it to stay in the charts for over two years. It was named the best-selling Regional Mexican Album of the decade by Billboard magazine.
"Estos Celos" is a song written and produced by Mexican singer-songwriter Joan Sebastian and performed by Mexican recording artist Vicente Fernández. It was released as the lead single from Fernández's 79th studio album Para Siempre (2007).
"Qué Te Pasa" is a dance song written by J.R. Florez and Gian Pietro DiFelissati, produced by Felissatti and performed by Mexican singer Yuri. It was released in 1987 as the first single from her seventh studio album Aire (1987), and became her first number-one single in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart and won the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year in 1989.